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my holiday

jordon1995

jordon1995

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hi all

This year i am planing to go on a holiday to westen euorpe (e.g.france and germany)to visit old battle filds and musems can you please post some suggestions on where to go.

many thanks jordon
 
Ypres, cloth hall museum, Hooge, Sanctury wood/hill 60 museum,Hooge chaple/crater museum,Passchendaele museum....list is endless and loads of battle field walks and sites....well worth visiting if intrested in WW1 and a lot of them sell relics

Tony
 
thanks all is there any more and can you put links for me to look at please. sorry i have posted this in the wrong section lol sorry

many thanks jordon =]
 
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Bastogne, a must, for me it would be ostend, ypres long haul to Verdun, Ciney, Arlon, Bastogne, Arnhem, Nijmegen, working all the fairs into the trip. Dave
 
Hi,

In France, Cap Gris-nez and the Batterie Todt museum (http://www.batterietodt.com/), Epperlecques bunker (http://www.leblockhaus.com/modulosite2/musee-guerre-calais.htm), St Omer La Coupole (V2 assembly and launching site) (http://www.lacoupole-france.com/), and evidently, WW I, Verdun and Sedan great museums and sites.

Don't forget in Belgium the La Gleize museum (http://www.december44.com/), in Brussel the MRA (muse royal de l'arme)( http://www.klm-mra.be/klm-new/engels/main01.php?id=menu_links/startpagina) with superbs tanks and aircrafts halls.

Yoda
 
Liberty park Overloon, www.libertypark.nl the place to be when you are interested in Ordnance, when you come on 14 and 15 of may, we have a big meeting called militracks, 45 German Cars, trucks and Tanks, all driving through the Forrest of Overloon, look at www.militracks.nl the place to be in May
 
Hello Jordon, only just found this. I would recommend researching the areas you intend to go to, to get the most out of your trip, and don't forget to take a camera. The Somme is favourite for me, for all that can still be seen there. Peronne has an interesting museum and you can buy trench maps in the shop at the Thiepval memorial museum (printed by G H Smith & Son, The Printers, Market Place, Easingwold, York YO61 3AB, tel 01347 821329, www.ghsmith.com/worldwar1). I would also recommend a visit to the Tommy Bar at Pozieres on the Albert - Bapaume road. It's an interesting bloke who owns it. Albert has an underground museum - well worth a visit. Further away, Verdun is interesting, in that if you get yourself a modern large scale map (I bought one at the ossuaire a few miles outside the town, many years ago), it will show you remaining trenches in the forests. The Chemin Des Dames (Champagne area, north of the river Marne) is also an interesting area. I visited the Overloon museum in Holland and at the time it had lots of WW2 static hardware outside. In Germany, the site of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp is an eye-opener. I think it's somewhere near Hanover (North German Plain).
 
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